Searching shared video footage from audio/video recording and communication devices

• US 10,489,453 B2
• Filed: 07/20/2017
• Issued: 11/26/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 02/26/2016
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: A9.com Incorporated (Amazon.com, Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc. (Amazon.com, Inc.)
• Inventors: Duda, Amanda M., Modestine, John, Siminoff, James
• Primary Examiner(s): Vaughn, Jr., William C
• Assistant Examiner(s): Tekle, Daniel T
• Application Number:
  US15/655,734
• Publication Number:
  US 20170322942A1
• Time in Patent Office: 859 Days
• Field of Search: None
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/7867 using information manually generated, e.g. tags, keywords, comments, title and artist information, manually generated time, location and usage information, user ratings
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 13/19684 Portable terminal, e.g. mobile phone, used for viewing video remotely
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 25/08 using communication transmission lines G08B13/19658, G08B21/0286, G08B25/016 take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 27/10 Indexing; Addressing; Timing or synchronising; Measuring tape travel
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/01 Protocols
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/12 specially adapted for proprietary or special-purpose networking environments, e.g. medical networks, sensor networks, networks in vehicles or remote metering networks
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/52 specially adapted for the location of the user terminal
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/53 using third party service providers
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/55 Push-based network services
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/2353 specifically adapted to content descriptors, e.g. coding, compressing or processing of metadata
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/2393 involving handling client requests scheduling or organising the servicing of application requests H04L67/60
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/25841 involving the geographical location of the client retrieval from the Internet by querying based on geographical locations G06F16/9537; arrangements for identifying locations of receiving stations in broadcast systems H04H60/51; location of the user terminal in data switching networks H04L67/52; services making use of the location of users or terminals in wireless networks H04W4/02; locating users or terminals in wireless networks H04W64/00
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/2743 Video hosting of uploaded data from client
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/84 Generation or processing of descriptive data, e.g. content descriptors systems specially adapted for using meta-information in broadcast systems H04H60/73
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 5/77 between a recording apparatus and a television camera
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 7/155 involving storage of or access to video conference sessions tracking arrangements for later retrieval of a computer conference content or participants activities H04L12/1831
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 7/186 Video door telephones
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/023 using mutual or relative location information between multiple location based services [LBS] targets or of distance thresholds
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/21 for social networking applications

Abstract

Systems and methods are provided for searching shared video footage from a plurality of neighborhoods in accordance with various embodiments of the present disclosure. In one embodiment, a method for searching video footage captured by audio/video (A/V) recording and communication devices located in a plurality of neighborhoods may include receiving, from a first client device, a share signal including first image data captured by a camera of a first A/V recording and communication device, the share signal including a command to share the first image data with a network of users; associating the first image data with at least one searchable identifier; receiving, from a second client device, at least one search input; matching the at least one search input with the at least one searchable identifier; and transmitting, to the second client device, the first image data associated with the at least one searchable identifier matched with the at least one search input.

Claims

1. A method for searching video footage captured by audio/video recording and communication devices (A/V devices) located in a plurality of neighborhoods, the method comprising:

receiving, from a first A/V device, at a backend server in network communication with the first A/V device, first image data captured by a camera of the first A/V device;

receiving, from a first client device associated with the first A/V device, at the backend server in network communication with the first client device, a share signal that includes a command to share the first image data with a network of users;

associating the first image data captured by the camera of the first A/V device with at least one searchable identifier;

receiving, from a second client device associated with a second A/V device, at the backend server in network communication with the second A/V device, at least one search input;

matching the at least one search input from the second client device with the at least one searchable identifier associated with the first image data; and

transmitting, from the backend server to the second client device, the first image data associated with the at least one searchable identifier matched with the at least one search input.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein each of the plurality of neighborhoods is a subset of users of the network of users corresponding to a geographical location.

3. The method of claim 2, wherein the first A/V device is located in a first neighborhood of the plurality of neighborhoods and the second A/V device is located in a second neighborhood of the plurality of neighborhoods.

4. The method of claim 3, wherein the command to share the first image data with the network of users includes a command to share the first image data only with one neighborhood of the plurality of neighborhoods.

5. The method of claim 3, wherein the command to share the first image data with the network of users includes a command to share the first image data with the plurality of neighborhoods.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein the at least one searchable identifier is a selection between live video footage or pre-recorded video footage.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein the at least one searchable identifier is a descriptive tag word.

8. The method of claim 7, wherein the descriptive tag word is provided by a first user using the first client device.

9. The method of claim 7, wherein the descriptive tag word is auto-generated by the backend server.

10. The method of claim 1, wherein the at least one searchable identifier is a descriptive tag phrase.

11. The method of claim 10, wherein the descriptive tag phrase is provided by a first user using the first client device.

12. The method of claim 10, wherein the descriptive tag phrase is auto-generated by the backend server.

13. The method of claim 1, wherein the at least one searchable identifier is text data describing the first image data provided by a first user using the first client device.

14. The method of claim 1, wherein the at least one searchable identifier is a labeling of a criminal act.

15. The method of claim 1, wherein the at least one searchable identifier is a geographical location associated with the first A/V device.

16. The method of claim 15, wherein the at least one searchable identifier is a street name.

17. The method of claim 15, wherein the at least one searchable identifier is a town name.

18. The method of claim 15, wherein the at least one searchable identifier is a city name.

19. The method of claim 1, further comprising generating the at least one searchable identifier by performing a computer vision process on the first image data.

20. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

receiving, from a third-party client device associated with a third-party A/V device, at the backend server in network communication with the third-party A/V device, third-party image data captured by a camera of the third-party A/V device;

associating the third-party image data captured by the camera of the third-party A/V device with at least one searchable identifier;

matching the at least one search input from the second client device with the at least one searchable identifier associated with the third-party image data; and

transmitting, from the backend server to the second client device, the third-party image data associated with the at least one searchable identifier matched with the at least one search input.

21. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

grouping the first image data into at least one category using the at least one searchable identifier;

receiving, from the second client device associated with the second A/V device, at the backend server in network communication with the second A/V device, at least one category input;

matching the at least one category input from the second client device with the at least one category; and

transmitting, from the backend server to the second client device, the first image data grouped into the at least one category matched with the at least one category input.